Ch1: Text Analysis

Everyday we are persuaded by words whether we mean for them to ro not. It is the way that these texts aim at the audience that defines rhetoric, or as Aristotle defines it, the ability to discern the available means of persuasion in any given situation. Visual persuasion is another way where rhetoric takes effect. Such as in plitical cartoons, advertisements, or even flyers. Visual rhetoric is the persuasion through images which helps develop the life skill of visual literacy- how to read, analyze, understand, and even produce texts that are visual by nature. We need to understand argument as writing across diverse media and in turn develop multimedia literacy, or a careful way of reading, analyzing, and understanding media. Rhetoric also works in persuading people to accept the texts that you create. the most important part being your thesis statement. The concise statement of your interpretation about a chosen text.